BURLINGTON, Vt. – UConn swept the weekend series with Vermont Sunday afternoon with a 3-1 win in Hockey East play at Gutterson Fieldhouse. The Huskies scored the first three goals of the game and held on late to secure the victory.

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COACH'S QUOTE
"Good second effort game in many respects," Head Coach Todd Woodcroft said. "We stayed in the game until late and maintained resiliency. We think our five-on-five is on its path to where we want it to be but our offensive game and PP need to be fine-tuned before next weekend. This coming week will be spent finding alternative ways to create offense."
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Catamounts came out with a jump in the first period, outshooting UConn 11-6, but they couldn't solve the Huskies' Arsenii Sergeev.
• Minutes into the second period the Huskies had 57 seconds of 5-on-3 action. UConn hit two posts and Vermont's Oskar Autio made an excellent blocker save as UVM killed the two-man advantage.
• On the remaining five-on-four segment the Huskies struck with Matthew Wood's second goal of the weekend series. He ripped a wrist shot off the crossbar and in 4:05 into the middle frame. Andrew Lucas and Ryan Tverberg earned assists on the tally.
• Chase Bradley doubled the UConn advantage 9:17 into the second period. Bradley deflected a centering feed from Nick Capone that just beat Autio.
• Ty Amonte made it a three-goal advantage 1:04 into the third period. Wood assisted on Amonte's first tally with UConn.
• With 7:25 to go in the third period Porter Schachle struck for the Catamounts with his first goal of the season. A Luca Münzenberger point shot generated a large rebound and first year Ralfs Bergmanis skated into the slot to deflect the puck away from two UConn forwards. After corralling the puck, he passed over to Schachle on the wing and he one-timed it home.
• The Catamounts pulled their goalie with 1:53 to play looking to cut further into the deficit. Sergeev made two saves in the final moments to preserve the win.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Oskar Autio (25 Sv) and Thomas Sinclair (1 Block) made their Catamounts debut Sunday night.
• First year Ralfs Bergmanis picked up his first career collegiate point with an assist on Schachle's tally.
• After winning 15 draws Saturday night, Joel Määttä won 18 tonight to lead all skaters. Määttä, Simon Jellus and Andrei Buyalsky were all over 60% in the faceoff circle.

UP NEXT
The Catamounts hit the road for the first-time next weekend as they travel to face No. 8 Northeastern in a two-game set. Friday's game is also the Hockey East Game of the Week and will be broadcast live on NESN with Tyler Murray and Jim Connelly on the call. Friday's game is at 7:30 p.m. in historic Matthews Arena and Saturday's game is set for 7 p.m. both will be available on ESPN+. 
 
The games will also be available on a pay-per-view basis internationally at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/hockeyeast. Subscriptions to the service are available for $9.99 USD per month or $4.99 USD for individual games.
 
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